In search of a language for the mind-brain
Subtitle: can the multiple perspectives be unified?
By: edited by Anjum P. Saleemi, Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Albert Gjedde.
Contributors: Saleemi, Anjum P.; Bohn, Ocke-Schwen, 1953-; Gjedde, Albert.
Series: Dolphin (Århus, Denmark) -- no. 33
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aarhus; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9788779340053
Subjects: Mind-brain identity theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The enigma of unification / Anjum P. Saleemi; title: Language and mind : current thoughts on ancient problems / Noam Chomsky; title: Consciousness / John R. Searle; title: Reverse-engineering the psyche / Steven Pinker; title: Language and the brain / Noam Chomsky; title: Subjectivity and the self : the neurobiology of consciousness / Albert Gjedde; title: Minimalist visions / Martin Atkinson; title: A fond farewell to the critical period hypothesis for non-primary language acquisition / Ocke-Schwen Bohn; title: Biology, culture and the emergence and elaboration of symbolization / Chris Sinha; title: A simple vocabulary for planning and deliberation : risk, complexity and knightian uncertainty / Jamsheed Shorish; title: Literary language and the scientific description of consciousness / Dominic Rainsford; title: On pain of irrationality : refuting relativistic challenges to the unifiability of knowledge / Anjum P. Saleemi.